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We study the problem of Byzantine fault tolerance in a distributed optimization setting, where there is a group of $N$ agents communicating with a trusted centralized coordinator. Among these agents, there is a subset of $f$ agents that may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Amit Dutta , Thinh T. Doan , Jeffrey H. Reed

Byzantine machine learning (ML) aims to ensure the resilience of distributed learning algorithms to misbehaving (or Byzantine) machines. Although this problem received significant attention, prior works often assume the data held by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Youssef Allouah , Sadegh Farhadkhani , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

Recent studies have revealed that federated learning (FL), once considered secure due to clients not sharing their private data with the server, is vulnerable to attacks such as client-side training data distribution inference, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yichang Xu , Ming Yin , Minghong Fang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL) has gained attention as a distributed learning paradigm for its data privacy benefits and accelerated convergence through parallel computation. Traditional FL relies on a server-client (SC) architecture, where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Xuecen Zhao , Jia Liu

In distributed learning systems, robustness issues may arise from two sources. On one hand, due to distributional shifts between training data and test data, the trained model could exhibit poor out-of-sample performance. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Guanqiang Zhou , Ping Xu , Yue Wang , Zhi Tian

Federated learning systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks. To combat this, we introduce a novel aggregator based on Huber loss minimization, and provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis. Under independent and identically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Puning Zhao , Fei Yu , Zhiguo Wan

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, it remains vulnerable to malicious clients who compromise model integrity through Byzantine attacks, data poisoning, or adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Abolfazl Younesi , Leon Kiss , Zahra Najafabadi Samani , Juan Aznar Poveda , Thomas Fahringer

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to prevent data leakage through collaborative model training without centralized data storage. However, it remains vulnerable to gradient reconstruction attacks that recover original training data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuxiao Chen , Gamze Gürsoy , Qi Lei

In decentralized machine learning, different devices communicate in a peer-to-peer manner to collaboratively learn from each other's data. Such approaches are vulnerable to misbehaving (or Byzantine) devices. We introduce F-RG, a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Renaud Gaucher , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Hadrien Hendrikx

Privacy leakage and Byzantine failures are two adverse factors to the intelligent decision-making process of multi-agent systems (MASs). Considering the presence of these two issues, this paper targets the resolution of a class of nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Jinhui Hu , Guo Chen , Huaqing Li , Huqiang Cheng , Xiaoyu Guo , Tingwen Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is a nascent decentralized learning framework under which a massive collection of heterogeneous clients collaboratively train a model without revealing their local data. Scarce communication, privacy leakage, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ming Xiang , Lili Su

Byzantine-robust federated learning aims to enable a service provider to learn an accurate global model when a bounded number of clients are malicious. The key idea of existing Byzantine-robust federated learning methods is that the service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xiaoyu Cao , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated learning (FL), as a type of distributed machine learning, is capable of significantly preserving client's private data from being shared among different parties. Nevertheless, private information can still be divulged by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Adrien Banse , Jan Kreischer , Xavier Oliva i Jürgens

Inherent client drifts caused by data heterogeneity, as well as vulnerability to Byzantine attacks within the system, hinder effective model training and convergence in federated learning (FL). This paper presents two new frameworks, named…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Bingnan Xiao , Feng Zhu , Jingjing Zhang , Wei Ni , Xin Wang

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative machine learning paradigm which ensures data privacy by training models across distributed datasets without centralizing sensitive information. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a kind of FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Nikita Shrivastava , Drishya Uniyal , Bapi Chatterjee

Byzantine robustness is an essential feature of algorithms for certain distributed optimization problems, typically encountered in collaborative/federated learning. These problems are usually huge-scale, implying that communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ahmad Rammal , Kaja Gruntkowska , Nikita Fedin , Eduard Gorbunov , Peter Richtárik

Providing privacy protection has been one of the primary motivations of Federated Learning (FL). Recently, there has been a line of work on incorporating the formal privacy notion of differential privacy with FL. To guarantee the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xinwei Zhang , Xiangyi Chen , Mingyi Hong , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Jinfeng Yi

Federated learning is a distributed learning setting where the main aim is to train machine learning models without having to share raw data but only what is required for learning. To guarantee training data privacy and high-utility models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Mikko A. Heikkilä

Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Georgios Damaskinos , El Mahdi El Mhamdi , Rachid Guerraoui , Rhicheek Patra , Mahsa Taziki